Quotes Library

September 6, 2025

Prejudice is the raft unto which the ship-wrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Ben Hecht (1894–1964), American journalist, writer, A Guide for the Bedevilled (1947), Seldes p.177

What do you suppose caused the shipwreck? And to what sort of safety?

No doubt Jane Austen would agree that pride can be made to serve the same purpose.

July 3, 2025

8 months ago

Every government is a device by which a few control the actions of many…on both sides at the moment

September 4, 2025

6 months ago

I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the best coloured man

May 10, 2025

10 months ago

I respect fidelity to colleagues even though they are fit for the hangman.

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